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Example sentences for "stooping down"

  • The others did not notice my absence, but went on out of the grinding-shop, and the engineer came close up to me, stooping down as I waited, and putting his face close to mine.

  • Once and for all," said Uncle Bob, drawing his chair forward, stooping down, taking up his left leg and holding it across his right knee.

  • I had seen enough, and I did not want to be noticed, for some of the men were beginning to come back, so stooping down I patted Piter and went off to the office.

  • Stooping down he seized it by the tail, and put it in his glove, and tied a piece of string across the opening of the glove, so that the mouse could not escape.

  • Stooping down as he spoke he traced three circles on the ground and murmured some words very low, which Peronnik could not hear.

  • Turning now to the narrative of what passed when Peter and John were gone, we find that Mary, stooping down, looked through her tears into the darkness of the tomb, and saw two angels clothed in white, who asked her why she wept.

  • And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

  • Then arose Peter, and went unto the sepulchre: and, stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

  • Then, stooping down, she asked, "Are you better, Hans?

  • Suddenly he appeared to have made up his mind, for, stooping down, he began to dig with the greatest energy, stopping at intervals to listen, and again continuing his work when satisfied that he was unobserved.

  • Any further delay would be dangerous: stooping down so that, should either of the Indians awake, there might be less chance of their being seen, they made their way into the forest.

  • Stooping down, he spoke some words which I did not understand; he then addressed me in Indian, and asked me who I was, and whence I had come.

  • Stooping down, he rose with a human skull in his hand, white and clean.

  • Stooping down, I peered through the opening.

  • Stooping down, he picked up something from the floor.

  • Stooping down, she lifted the restless boy, and, wrapping his cloak about him, commenced the same noiseless tread.

  • Stooping down, she whispered: "Don't let it trouble you.

  • Stooping down, he was in the act of drawing it from among the others, when the sentinel made a movement to arrest his hand.

  • Stooping down, he seized his henchman's shoulder, and shook him, but only elicited a grunt.

  • Now Bouldon had almost caught up Buttar, but the latter, stooping down, was off again under his very hands, and turning suddenly, was off once more behind his back.

  • Sandford, laughing; and knowing perfectly well that Blackall dared not retaliate, stooping down, he lifted the kite, and held it up to the view of the whole school.

  • Most of the boys thought that he would come down by the ladder; but, stooping down, he swung himself on to the pole and slid down head first to the ground.

  • Glenn, stooping down, and feeling his pulse.

  • Boone, stooping down to Joe, who still remained apparently frozen to the snow-crust.

  • Crass struck a match, and Slyme, stooping down, drew a key from a crevice in the wall near one of the doors, which he unlocked, and they entered.

  • He hastily gathered the broken rolls together and, stooping down, thrust the pieces up the flue of the grate and closed the register.

  • Do for a front room in a cottage,' continued Misery, stooping down to examine it more closely.

  • He turned back and, stooping down as he searched the ground with anxious eyes, he moved away, screaming "tuituit" every few moments.

  • Suddenly, stooping down, he steeped his handkerchief in the stream that glided along at his feet and spread it over his head, under his hat.

  • He watched, stooping down, and with his eyes as bright as those of a dog who scents a quail, but she saw him raised her head and said: "Was that you singing like that?

  • Never before had she seen such disorder about a temple, and, stooping down, she began to separate one thing from another and to place them in heaps.

  • But at the sight of Una's tender beauty he stopped suddenly, and, stooping down, he kissed her feet and licked her hands.

  • On stooping down, accordingly, I could see the judge's face with the binnacle light shining on it, as he swayed to and fro in the doorway, seemingly in a passion at something or other.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always have; chair close; delivered over; departed spirits; different sorts; east direction; five hundred years ago; four grains; great honor; household management; mixed race; more probable; personal pronoun; romances containing; second advent; shall rejoice; shall relate; sometimes nearly; stooping down; sugar and; typographical error; well again